Privacy, personal data protection, and the need to differentiate
- The coming years will be characterized by the development of mobile ICT that will enable con - sumers to use information and communication services everywhere and anytime. Technologies like GPRS, WLAN, or UMTS can be used stand-alone or in combination with other technologies like RFID or GPS to provide, for instance, location-aware services. Mobile ICT is to be expected to evolve to that what often is called Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous or Pervasive Computing. It is likely that such new technologies will affect personnel privacy because providing mobile ICT services inherits the identification and often the exact localization of users. In the following text we shall analyze possible threats of privacy. We will distinguish different dimensions or aspects of privacy to show how new technologies can affect them. After that, we shall argue that it is necessary to make a distinction of privacy and data protection: privacy primarily is a matter of social norms and data protection the realm of technical measurements. Additionally, we will provide some empirical evidence that users of the Internet make that distinction. Finally, we will claim that the right to privacy and privacy itself only can be protected if there are widely accepted social norms regarding privacy.
Author: | Karsten WeberORCiDGND, Ricarda Drüeke |
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URL / DOI: | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263818596_Privacy_personal_data_protection_and_the_need_to_differentiate |
Parent Title (English): | Ethics of New Information Technology. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE2005) |
Editor: | Philip Brey, F. Grodzinsky, L. Introna |
Document Type: | conference proceeding (article) |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
Release Date: | 2020/10/27 |
Tag: | Ambient Intelligences; Data Protection; Mobile ICT; Privacy, Data Protection, Mobile ICT, Ambient Intelligence, Social Norms; Social Norm |
Pagenumber: | 13 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik |
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Labor für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Angewandte Ethik (LaTe) | |
Publication: | Externe Publikationen |
research focus: | Digitalisierung |